Lecture Announcement: Perry on Capital Punishment at Brooklyn
- Does Capital Punishment Violate the Eighth Amendment?
Tue. April 04
Professor Michael Perry, Emory University School of Law
Begin 4:00 pm
End 5:00 pm
Location Brooklyn Law School
250 Joralemon Street
Subotnick Center
Brooklyn, New York 11201
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RSVP RSVP online by March 28, 2006.
Description Michael J. Perry is one of the nation’s leading authorities on the relationship of morality and the law. He holds the Robert W. Woodruff Chair at Emory University School of Law, its highest honor, and has been a member of its faculty since 2003. Previously he was the University Distinguished Chair in Law at Wake Forest University, where he taught for six years, and the Howard J. Trienens Chair in Law at Northwestern University, where he taught for 15 years. Professor Perry’s work has focused on three areas: American constitutional law, law and morality, and law and religion. He has written extensively on some of the most contentious issues of American law and politics, and is the author of nine books, published by Oxford, Cambridge and Yale University presses, and over 60 articles and essays. Perry received his A.B. from Georgetown University and his J.D. from Columbia University.